This is episode 1,741.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself to experience a little more peace, energy, and clarity as you slow down.

Sometimes you have to give yourself permission to slow down and that is what you are doing.

Meditation may be the most important thing you do for yourself today. So as you get

ready to do your meditation today I have a technique to share with you.

The technique for today as it is for every Tuesday, as I record this for a Tuesday's episode, I share a

breathing technique. Now breathing techniques are one of the most effective ways to instantly calm your mind and

body.

And our theme this week is all about managing anxiety and so your breathing technique will help you manage anxiety.

I always say the best time to prepare for any kind of event but especially an, is before it happens.

And anxiety attacks are emergency situations.

And so when you have some tools to help you along the way, you feel more confident and calmer about what you may be experiencing as you go through an anxiety attack.

And in yesterday's episode, I shared with you how important it is to coach your way through your anxiety attack because this helps

to let go of fear and anxiety is often provoked from fearful situations that cause you to feel threatened in some way.

So when you are experiencing an anxiety attack, remember that it's important to remind yourself that what you are experiencing is a sympathetic nervous system response that will soon pass.

Now you don't have to remember that it's a sympathetic nervous system response just remember that you're

going to go through some symptoms and then you will eventually get back on track and if you even

want to talk to yourself this way out loud that can be particularly helpful. There's research

showing that when you talk to yourself out loud. You process your emotions. You have more focus and clarity and can problem solve much better than if you're ruminating in your mind. So it's very similar to keeping a journal. That

process of writing helps you to process emotions and to problem solve. So you can talk your way through an anxiety attack.

You can say, this part is really hard, describe how you're feeling, and then you can say, I'm doing my best,

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